maligner

Example Sentences

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She proves her innocence by going before the king and swearing that her maligner has stolen one of her golden slippers.

From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill

For this maligner of the general good, If still we fear his force, he must be woo'd; His haughty godhead we with pray'rs implore, Your scepter to release, and our just rights restore.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

The author of the Suite de Merlin seems to have been her first maligner.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

But all the assertions of this paid maligner sink into insignificance compared with what follows.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

His maligner and only slightly younger contemporary, Horace Walpole, in some of his letters, writes in a fashion which, putting mere slang aside, has hardly any difference from that of to-day.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George